Chaotic Fringe

Stephen Calhoun, artist, Cleveland Heights Ohio

Musical Fugue State (2016) 24×15

The first piece for which it became clear to me that my preoccupation with turning complex disordered scenes into orderly presentations of overt and covert patterns could echo, in a striking way, the renaissance paintings of the Family Brueghel, was working through cuts of the photograph that became the basis for Paired Observations. This dates from June 2015.

The Battle of Carnival of Lent, Pieter Bruegel the Younger, is a favorite of mine.

The Battle of Carnival and Lent

Hustle and bustle unfolded in the streaming of life. . . Carnival v. Lent! Chaos v. Order!

The Bruegel Collection at
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.

List of Pieter the Older/the Younger paintings:

Pieter Bruegel the Younger Paintings

The Kermesse Of St George
The Massacre of the Innocents
The Triumph of the Death
Winter Landscape with a Bird-trap
Adoration of the Magi
Crucifixion
Battle Of Carnival And Lent
Preparation Of The Flower Beds
A Village Landscape With Farmers
Proverbs
Village Lawyer
The Seven Acts Of Charity
Calvary
The Way of the Cross

Pieter Bruegel the Elder Paintings

Landscape with the Fall of Icarus
The Fight Between Carnival and Lent
The Fight Between Carnival and Lent: detail of background
Netherlandish Proverbs
Children’s Games
Dulle Griet (Mad Meg)
The Triumph of Death
The Tower of Babel
The “Little” Tower of Babel
The Adoration of the Kings
The Procession to Calvary
The Harvesters
The Hunters in the Snow
The Hunters in the Snow: DETAIL OF soaring bird
The Hunters in the Snow: detail of the fire in front of the inn
Winter Landscape with a Bird Trap
The painter and the buyer
The Peasant Dance
Peasant wedding
Naval Battle in the Gulf of Naples
The Fall of the Rebel Angels
The “Little” Tower of Babel
The Procession to Calvary
The Adoration of the Kings
Massacre of the Innocents
Winter Landscape with a Bird Trap
Landscape with Christ and the Apostles at the Sea of Tiberias
Ass at School
Parable of the Sower
Landscape with the Fall of Icarus
Netherlandish Proverbs
The Fight Between Carnival and Lent
Portrait of an Old Woman
Children’s Games
Temperance
Saul (Battle Against The Philistines On The Gilboa)
Two Small Monkeys
The Triumph of Death
Dulle Griet (Mad Meg)
The Tower of Babel
Flight To Egypt
The Death of the Virgin
The Months
The Hunters in the Snow
The Gloomy Day
The Hay Harvest
The Harvesters
The Return of the Herd
Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery
The Calumny of Apelles
The Painter and the Connoisseur
Preaching Of John The Baptist
Census at Bethlehem
The Wedding Dance
Conversion Of Paul
The Land of Cockaigne
The Magpie on the Gallows
The Misanthrope
The Blind Leading the Blind
The Peasant Wedding
The Peasant Dance
The Beggars
The Peasant and the Nest Robber
The Three Soldiers
The Storm at Sea

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